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Discover LudwigThe phrase "cruel logic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a set of ideas or beliefs that are rational or logical but have a negative outcome or effect. For example, "We must accept the cruel logic of the market, where those with the most money have the most power."
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Sharansky was immediately subject to that cruel logic.
That's a cool — and rather cruel — logic for you.
It is the cruel logic of the gentlemen's singles draw that it eventually gives us one winner and 127 losers.
Defending the use of the atom bomb, he essentially argues that by the cruel logic of war, the Japanese beckoned fate.
In a field defined by the cruel logic of natural selection, group selection appears to be the rare hint of virtue, the one biological force pushing back against the obvious advantages of greed and deceit.
Somehow Uggs, the boots that so many people loved to hate, have managed to defy the cruel logic of the fashion cycle and carry on – whether you approve of them or not.
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But it might make you think in new ways about a cruel cultural logic that increasingly obliterates the middle ground between success and failure.
All of which greased the wheels for Andrews's victory for Poppins: among the crueller cases of karmic logic in Academy history.
MOMA's own planned expansion bodes an architecture keyed to crowd management, which explains the logic behind even the cruel demolition of the intimate former American Museum of Folk Art.
Beneath the surface of the Maine summer, an elemental drama, cruel and increasingly ironic, unfolds with a logic that borders on the Sophoclean.
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